The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

Microorganisms and ocean global change

DA Hutchins, F Fu - Nature microbiology, 2017 - nature.com
The prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms that drive the pelagic ocean's
biogeochemical cycles are currently facing an unprecedented set of comprehensive …

Predicting evolutionary responses to climate change in the sea

PL Munday, RR Warner, K Monro, JM Pandolfi… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of short‐term experimental studies show significant effects of
projected ocean warming and ocean acidification on the performance on marine organisms …

Impacts of global warming on marine microbial communities

B Abirami, M Radhakrishnan, S Kumaran… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global warming in ocean ecosystems alters temperature, acidification, oxygen content,
circulation, stratification, and nutrient inputs. Microorganisms play a dominant role in global …

Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians

PD Mannion, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The fossil record of crocodylians and their relatives (pseudosuchians) reveals a rich
evolutionary history, prompting questions about causes of long-term decline to their present …

Conservation paleobiology: leveraging knowledge of the past to inform conservation and restoration

GP Dietl, SM Kidwell, M Brenner… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Humans now play a major role in altering Earth and its biota. Finding ways to ameliorate
human impacts on biodiversity and to sustain and restore the ecosystem services on which …

Decrease in coccolithophore calcification and CO2 since the middle Miocene

CT Bolton, MT Hernández-Sánchez, MÁ Fuertes… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Marine algae are instrumental in carbon cycling and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2)
regulation. One group, coccolithophores, uses carbon to photosynthesize and to calcify …

Dynamical excitation of the tropical Pacific Ocean and ENSO variability by Little Ice Age cooling

GT Rustic, A Koutavas, TM Marchitto, BK Linsley - Science, 2015 - science.org
Tropical Pacific Ocean dynamics during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) and the Little
Ice Age (LIA) are poorly characterized due to a lack of evidence from the eastern equatorial …

Multidecadal increase in North Atlantic coccolithophores and the potential role of rising CO2

S Rivero-Calle, A Gnanadesikan, CE Del Castillo… - Science, 2015 - science.org
As anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions acidify the oceans, calcifiers generally
are expected to be negatively affected. However, using data from the Continuous Plankton …

Long-term effects of warming and ocean acidification are modified by seasonal variation in species responses and environmental conditions

JA Godbold, M Solan - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Warming of sea surface temperatures and alteration of ocean chemistry associated with
anthropogenic increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide will have profound consequences …